Final week was loads, and now we’re again to our regular geographic combine, distance and terrain selection. That features the Skyrunning World Championships, a aggressive Cirque Sequence race, the Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile, and a $10,000 prize purse in West Virginia.
Skyrunning World Championships – Soria, Spain
The Skyrunning World Championships and its three racing disciplines passed off over the weekend, placed on by the game of skyrunning’s governing physique, the Worldwide Skyrunning Federation (ISF).
For readability, the Skyrunning World Championships usually are not a part of the Skyrunner World Sequence. The Skyrunner World Sequence is an unbiased annual collection sanctioned by the ISF that culminates in its personal championship occasion, SkyMasters.
Vertical
Friday’s vertical race went up 1,050 meters over 4.8 kilometers.
Alain Santamaría (Spain) trailed Joseph Demoor (U.S.) by 14 seconds with 9 minutes to go, however overtook the American on the course’s highest slopes. Santamaría received in 40:56 and Demoor was second in 41:00. Alex Oberacher (Italy) was third in 42:11.
Ladies’s winner Naiara Irigoyen (Spain) separated from Paola Stampanoni (Switzerland) and Benedetta Broggi (Italy) on the excessive part and received in 50:08. Stampanoni and Broggi have been second and third in 50:27 and 50:43.
SkyUltra
The Saturday lengthy race went for 70k with 4,350 meters of climbing.
Cristian Minoggio (Italy) dominated the lads’s race. He was method out in entrance of everybody with a 6:53 end. Jesus Gil (Spain) and Shoma Otagiri (Japan) got here subsequent in 7:21 and seven:28.
The ladies have been extra carefully bunched. Giula Marchesoni (Italy) opened a small lead over the ultimate three hours and stayed in entrance for victory in 8:38. Honoka Akiyama (Japan) and Gemma Arenas (Spain) podiumed with 8:43 and eight:48 finishes.
Sky
The occasion culminated with Sunday’s 37k race that totaled 2,540 meters of elevation acquire.
Alain Santamaría doubled again for his second win of the weekend. He was first in 3:33. Simply over a minute again, Lorenzo Beltrami (Italy) chased in second at 3:34, and Ruy Ueda (Japan) earned a bronze in third at 3:39.
Alain Santamaría, the 2024 Skyrunning World Championships 37k males’s winner. Photograph: ISF/iancorless.com
Swedish runners Louise Jernberg and Barbro Fjällstedt led the ladies’s group in 4:25 and 4:27, and Karina Carsolio (Mexico) was third in 4:30.
The 2024 Skyrunning World Championships girls’s podium (left-to-right): 2. Barbro Fjällstedt, 1. Louise Jernberg, and three. Karina Carsolio. Photograph: ISF/iancorless.com
World’s Quickest Run – Vilnius, Lithuania
I had Rocky IV vibes going into this one, however information and file makes an attempt are fickle. The 100k world file holder Aleksandr Sorokin (Lithuania) didn’t begin the race as a consequence of harm, and 50-mile world file holder Charlie Lawrence (U.S.) dropped 65k into the race.
Toru Somiya (Japan) was the 100k race winner in 6:42. Second-place Dariusz Nozynski (Poland) completed in 6:44 and Tomas Bizimavičius (Lithuania) was third in 6:48. Sorokin’s world file of 6:05 from 2023 nonetheless stands.
Toru Somiya, the 2024 World’s Quickest Run 100k males’s winner. Photograph: Saulius Čirba
Andrea Pomaranski (U.S.) received the ladies’s race in 8:50. Pomaranski was second on the 2023 IAU 50k World Championships.
Remigijus Kančys (Lithuania) received the 50k in 2:49 and set a brand new nationwide file.
Andrea Pomaranski, the 2024 World’s Quickest Run 100k feminine winner. Photograph: Saulius Čirba
Cirque Sequence – Arapahoe Basin, Colorado
The 12 months’s ultimate Cirque Sequence race went 9.2 miles from the Arapahoe Basin ski space. After a excessive altitude 10,780-foot begin, the race climbed 2,411 toes. The race paid out $1,000 to its winners.
Males
Patrick Kipngeno (Kenya) is again within the U.S., and driving a profitable streak. He received two World Mountain Working Affiliation World Cup races final weekend and pushed that streak to 3 in a row. Kipgneno conquered the Cirque Sequence course in 1:04:31. He’ll go for win 4 in a row subsequent weekend on the Golden Path World Sequence contest in California.
Second-place Johen Deleon got here out of nowhere to complete on the rostrum in 1:05:13. The 26-year-old has restricted path outcomes so far. Most not too long ago he was twentieth on the 2023 Pikes Peak Ascent.
Joseph Grey was third in 1:05:48. The entire prime three males beat Eli Hemming’s 2023 profitable time.
Deeper outcomes included Philemon Kiriago (Kenya) in sixth at 1:09:17. After a second and first on the final two Sierre-Zinal races, I’m satisfied Kiriago runs his finest at Sierre-Zinal.
Ladies
Jane Maus shined within the girls’s race with a 1:19:26 first-place run. Maus received the July 2024 Silverton Alpine Marathon and has the Javelina 100k on her calendar subsequent for October 2024.
Alexa Aragon and Jamie Brusa have been second and third in 1:21:45 and 1:24:10, respectively.
Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile – Kaysville, Utah
The purpose-to-point run totals 24,000 toes of elevation acquire. There have been 164 finishers in opposition to 298 starters on the course that the race calls “100 Miles of Heaven and Hell.”
Males
Jimmy Elam toppled defending champ Jose Cruz and for a lot of the day threatened Geoff Roes’s longstanding course file. Elam completed in 19:08. Cruz was second in 20:27, 24 minutes higher than his profitable time from a 12 months in the past. Roes’s course better of 18:30 dates again to 2009, and Elam’s 19:08 seems to be the race’s second-fastest ever. The course has modified through the years. Taylor Fannin was third in 21:13.
Jimmy Elam, the 2024 Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile males’s winner. Photograph courtesy of Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile.
Ladies
Simply 25 minutes separated the primary three girls, and simply 4 minutes the primary two. Elizabeth Butler edged Lauran Hansen for the ladies’s win in 26:22. Hansen was proper there too in 26:26. Andrea McAffee was third in 26:47.
Elizabeth Butler, the 2024 Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile girls’s winner. Photograph courtesy of Wasatch Entrance 100 Mile.
6 dagsløb i Åbybro -Åbybro, Denmark
The ladies’s six-day world file hadn’t been touched for 34 years till Camille Herron ran 560 miles in March of this 12 months.
And now, Stine Rex (Denmark) has eclipsed Herron’s feat. Rex completed on Sunday, September 1. She totaled 913.606k, or 567 miles.
As is regular, the file is pending Worldwide Affiliation of Ultrarunners (IAU) ratification.
Extra Races and Runs
Infinite Trails – Gastein, Austria
The occasion included a group race that totaled 21k, 35k, and 44k runs, and solo 60k, 45k, 30k, and 15k races.
Within the males’s group contest, Eric LiPuma (U.S.), Dan Jones (New Zealand), and Jeshurun Small (U.S.) led everybody with a mixed 11:00 end. All three have been doubling again from their UTMB-weekend races.
Kim Schreiber (Germany), Martin Anthamatten (Switzerland), and Martin Dematteis (Italy) led the mixed-gender relay in 11:34, and Alexandra Danner (Germany), Sara Hutter (Italy), and Megan Lane (U.S.) teamed to win the ladies’s relay in 13:32.
The beginning of the 2024 Infinite Trails. Photograph: Infinite Trails
Dolomitemann – Lienz, Austria
The relay race combines mountain working, paragliding, mountain biking, and kayaking, and usually options some prime path runners. Richard Atuya (Kenya), Josphat Kiprotich (Kenya), and Michael Saoli (Kenya) ran the day’s first-, second-, and third- quickest opening legs, and their groups completed first, second, and fourth. Henri Aymonod (Italy) was the runner for the third-place group, and so they significantly moved up on the mountain biking leg. Full outcomes.
Pine to Palm 100 Mile – Williams, Oregon
Jace Ives and common iRunFar contributor Annie Behrend received the point-to-point run in 21:47 and 22:40, respectively, and Behrend was second general. Full outcomes.
Wy’east Surprise – Parkdale, Oregon
The Go Past Racing occasion included 50 mile and 50k races on point-to-point programs totally on two ridges alongside Mount Hood. Kody Shriver and Audrey Lawrence have been tops over 50 miles in 7:52 and 9:00, and Peter Buckley and Meg Imhoff received the 50k in 4:12 and 5:20. Full outcomes.
Mogollon Monster 100 Mile – Pine, Arizona
The Aravaipa Working races consists of exceptionally rugged terrain across the Mogollon Rim. Kilian Korth and Teresa Shiflett slayed the monster in 22:37 and 29:28. Full outcomes.
Satan on the Divide 50k – Empire, Colorado
Males’s winner Scott Schrader simply barely edged out girls’s winner Megan Burke. Schrader received the excessive altitude run in 5:09, however Burke scored a brand new girls’s course file in 5:10. Full outcomes.
Superior Fall Path Races – Two Harbors, Minnesota
The races run point-to-point on the Superior Climbing Path by way of the Sawtooth Mountain Vary. The 100-mile winners Scott Wopota and Cheryl Matson completed in 20:54 and 27:41, and 50-mile champs Andrew Weber and Erin Inexperienced made it in 9:21 and 10:24, respectively. Full outcomes.
Hurricane 100k – Hurricane, West Virginia
The race had a $10,000 prize purse that awarded $2,500 to its winners. Nonetheless, there have been simply 32 finishers and solely three girls’s finishers. The ladies’s finishers received $2,500, $1,500, and $1,000 then. For the lads, Alex Minor overcame a 2023 loss to Dan Inexperienced for the large cash. Minor received in 8:45 to Inexperienced’s 9:03. Minor’s 2022 win in 8:38 nonetheless stands because the course file. David Smith was third man in 10:36. Ladies’s champ Sawyer Magnett was hours forward in 9:55. Leslie Starnes and Kimberly Arbinger have been second and third in 13:37 and 16:34, respectively. Full outcomes.
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